Editing Doopliss

|image=[[File:PMTTYD Doopliss Artwork.png|170px|Doopliss]]

|portrayed_by=[[Charles Martinet]] (''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''; while in Mario disguise only) (2004)

'''Doopliss''' is a [[Duplighost]] that lives in the [[Creepy Steeple]] of [[Twilight Town]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. He appears as an enemy of Mario several times throughout the game, and is the boss of Chapter 4. He causes the members of Twilight Town to become [[pig]]s whenever the bell tolls, and attempts to steal Mario's identity. He has the special ability of stealing another character's body when copying them, something that other Duplighosts are unable to do. He later becomes a member of the [[Shadow Sirens]], replacing [[Vivian]].

Doopliss's English name comes from the word "duplicity," being double or twofold, which references his powers. It also may come from the word "dupe," meaning to fool others, which he does while disguised. In other localizations, his name is Rumpel, which comes from the fairy tale character {{wp|Rumpelstiltskin}}, as both offer the same challenge: to have another guess his name.

At some point after the Boo of the [[Black Chest Demon|four legendary heroes]] hides the [[Ruby Star]] in [[Creepy Steeple]], Doopliss moves into the castle and keeps it for himself. Doopliss enchants the bell of the Creepy Steeple so that each time it rings, a resident of the nearby [[Twilight Town]] is transformed into a [[pig]]. Mario, whose [[Magical Map]] tells him that the [[Ruby Star]] is inside the Creepy Steeple, seeks to help the inhabitants of the village and goes to the steeple via the [[Twilight Trail]]. When Mario and his partners encounter Doopliss in the highest tower of the steeple, he is watching TV and coming up with new ideas for pranks, suggesting that he is a very dedicated prankster.  

In the following fight against Doopliss, [[Goombella]] is unable to tell Doopliss's name using [[Tattle]], as it does not appear in her log. Instead, Doopliss' name is represented by five question marks (i.e. ?????). Once Doopliss' HP drops below 20, he fights by transforming himself into a shadowy outline of Mario and attacking with his moves. After seemingly defeating Doopliss, he switches bodies with Mario and leaves Mario as a shadow. Doopliss, as Mario, claims to have defeated himself and won the [[Crystal Stars|Crystal Star]]. Having successfully tricked Mario's partners, he marches off to Twilight Town, leaving the actual Mario defeated on the floor.

The real Mario, now merely a shadow, follows Doopliss back to Twilight Town, where he meets the ghost at the village's entrance. Doopliss then tells Mario that if he can correctly guess his name, Mario's original form will be restored. At the moment, he is unable to guess correctly because Doopliss has somehow removed [[The letter "p"|the lower-case letter P]] from the keyboard screen to prevent Mario from guessing his real name. Because of this, he challenges Mario and orders him not to run. However, because neither Mario nor Doopliss can damage each other, Mario is forced to [[flee]].

Mario then finds the [[Shadow Sirens|Shadow Siren]] [[Vivian]], who is at the time in Twilight Town looking for the [[Superbombomb]] and doesn't realize who she meets is actually Mario. They hear from a [[crow]] in the village that a being in the basement of the Creepy Steeple knows Doopliss' name. Back in the steeple, they hear the name "Doopliss" from the [[Parrot (character)|parrot]] living there. The lowercase "p", which was not available in the name selection screen provided by Doopliss, is held in a treasure chest in the Creepy Steeple's dungeon. Having secured the missing letter, Mario and Vivian are able to name the ghost correctly.

Mario and Vivian then corner Doopliss at the entrance of Twilight Town and tells him his real name, which weakens the power of his spell by making him vulnerable to Mario's attacks. Doopliss's magic is, however, not fully broken by this and he flees back to the tower of the Creepy Steeple. In the tower room, Doopliss and Mario's fooled partners fight the actual Mario. Vivian only then realizes he is Mario, but chooses to abandon her sisters, [[Marilyn]] and [[Beldam]], and joins Mario in the fight. Doopliss is defeated and both he and Mario return to their original forms. Doopliss flees and gives up the Ruby Star. While on the run, he meets [[Beldam]] and [[Marilyn]] in Twilight Town who were currently looking for Vivian.

Doopliss joins the Shadow Sirens and fills in Vivian's place. In this position he, too, is mistreated by Beldam, who insists on calling him a "freak-in-a-sheet", despite the fact that he is no longer secretive about his name.  

Later, he helps the Shadow Sirens at their disruption on the [[Excess Express]]. Aptly disguised as the star [[Zip Toad]], he steals the [[Nitro Honey Syrup]] from the [[Businessman]]. This special syrup supposedly causes an enormous explosion when mixed with calcium and gold, so he prepares its use as a bomb, stealing the [[Shell Earrings]] of the [[Excess Express waitress]] for the calcium part and [[Toodles]]'s [[Gold Ring (item)|Gold Ring]] for the gold part, but is stopped in last minute by Mario. When [[Pennington]] arrests Zip, and takes him off the train at [[Riverside Station]], he shocks Pennington by turning back and dashing away.

Doopliss, Beldam, and Marilyn reappear in [[Poshley Heights]], where they break into the [[Poshley Sanctum]] by smashing a window and steal the fake [[Garnet Star]], which turns out to be a red herring created by Pennington, while Mario and his team find the real one hidden inside the painting.

Doopliss reappears once again after Chapter 7 in the [[Rogueport Sewers]], where he has taken on the disguise of [[Professor Frankly]] and tricks Mario and his partners into opening [[the Thousand-Year Door]] and going into the [[Palace of Shadow]]. The Shadow Sirens and Doopliss fight Mario and company in front of [[Riddle Tower]] in the Palace of Shadow. In this battle, Doopliss is a bit tougher, and has the ability to transform into Mario or one of his partners, and attacking as them. After their defeat, Beldam, Marilyn, and Doopliss watch Mario's battle against the [[Shadow Queen]]. After this event, he wants everyone to call him by his real name, tired of Beldam calling him a "Freak-in-a-sheet".

At the end of the game, Doopliss changes his mind about being a prankster and becomes an actor, being on stage together with [[Flurrie]]. He plays the role of Mario.

StarTheft.png|Beldam, Marilyn, and Doopliss stealing the Garnet Star. This is the first time Doopliss is seen being part of the Shadow Sirens since Chapter 4.

[[File:DooplissSuperMarioKun.png|frame|Doopliss in the manga]]

Doopliss also makes an appearance in the manga ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''. Doopliss plays the same role in ''Super Mario-kun'' as he does in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''. He holds one of the Crystal Stars and steals Mario's identity by using a beam based attack. In the end, Doopliss is humorously defeated by the real Mario. After the fight, the real Mario gets his identity back.

When he takes on Mario's form, he often has stern and evil looks which are rarely seen on the actual Mario's face. When Doopliss impersonates Mario, it is also notable that this is the only time where Mario is actually seen talking, as the real Mario is portrayed as a silent protagonist throughout the game. Even Mario's partners take notice, when both Mario and Doopliss visit Mayor Dour's house. They are surprised and wonder whether Mario suddenly learned to talk. It is also worth noting that at all times that when Doopliss is Mario that he looks rather tired and hunched over (like Mario when he is in [[Danger]] or [[Peril]]), his eyes are more rounded, appear reddish, and do not blink, as opposed to the true Mario's oval-shaped, brownish, and constantly blinking eyes, and that he is slightly shorter than the real Mario. In the Japanese version of the game, this sprite is also used for the real Mario if he agrees to serve the [[Shadow Queen]].<ref>fawfulthegreat64 (February 14, 2020). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVGAp_FXlZs Paper Mario: TTYD- Japanese-exclusive detail]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved November 13, 2021.</ref> When Doopliss impersonates Mario, Doopliss' voice becomes metallic.

Doopliss enchanted the Creepy Steeple's bell to turn an inhabitant of Twilight Town into a [[pig]] each time it rings. As explained by Vivian, since nobody knows his name, he gains the ability to cast incredible magic (a common theme in real mythology), which is likely amplified by the Crystal Star he possesses. This power is what allowed him to tie his Duplighost abilities to the Steeple's bell. Doopliss' defeat is linked to the curse's dissipation, though it might be mostly because of the power of the [[Ruby Star]]. When Mario first appears to claim the star, the villagers turn back to normal (the same thing happens with [[Grubba]]). However, it is also possible that Doopliss himself turns the villagers back to normal, as he, in Mario's form, claims that it had been him who freed them from the ghost. Also, the bell might still be enchanted, as it is stated that it no longer rings, though it's most likely that it isn't.

Later in the game, when Doopliss is part of the Shadow Sirens, he actually has a problem as he is not able to vanish at one spot and appear at another, an ability used by Beldam, Marilyn, and Vivian. Doopliss has to smash a window in the Poshley Sanctum for himself only, and he always runs away alone when the Shadow Sirens have long since disappeared into the shadows, calling them to wait for him.

Doopliss's motives for his actions remain mainly unknown. According to himself, he turns the Twilight Towners into pigs because they are "depressing and boring and dimwitted all the time", and he thought that instead of wallowing in gloom, "they might as well wallow in mud". While this characteristic of Doopliss might be described as cruel, he is later portrayed as childish, exclaiming "NO! NO! NO! NO!", "WHY? WHY WHY? WHY?", "HOW? HOW? HOW? HOW?" after Mario has guessed his name correctly. He frequently calls Mario and other people he does not consider friends "Slick," though this trait is not present in the Japanese version of the game. As a member of the Shadow Sirens, he suffers the same taunts as Vivian, but does not have enough power to resist them. Due to the fact that Doopliss changes sides after the game, teaming up with Flurrie, he may not be described as entirely "evil", but simply immature and reckless.

While impersonating Mario, Doopliss talks in a self-righteous manner. To Mario's partners, he says "All right, kids, put on your fighting gloves! Uh... Woo hoo! It's-a me!" He calls Vivian Mario's girlfriend, and after Vivian realizes Mario's true identity, Doopliss teases Mario with "See? Your friends ditch you because you don't have the charisma of me, Super Mario!". He also plays at Mario's popularity at the meeting with Mayor Dour, where the real Mario drops in and is not recognized by anyone else.

===Field Tattle===

|Jap=ランペル

|JapR=Ranperu

|JapM=Transliteration from the English pronunciation of "Rumpel," short for "Rumpelstiltskin."

|GerM=From the character "Rumpelstilzchen", English "Rumpelstiltskin"

==Trivia==

*Even if one knocks Doopliss' health down to zero in the first fight before he copies Mario, the event in the battle will still show, and Doopliss will have 10 HP, meaning it is impossible to skip the second half of the chapter.

*The bell that turns the citizens of Twilight Town into pigs rings fully four times in every loop of Doopliss's boss theme.

*If the player has one or both of the "[[W Emblem]]" or "[[L Emblem]]" badges equipped (although L Emblem cannot be obtained until after Chapter 4), Doopliss as Mario will still have Mario's normal clothes despite the fact that Mario’s clothes changed color.

*During the second fight with Doopliss, any badges that affect Mario’s partners (i.e. [[HP Plus P]] or [[Power Plus P]]) are disabled if they were equipped.

*Doopliss has an unused [[poison (status effect)|poison]]ed animation. This can be found in the game's [[List of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door pre-release and unused content|data]].